#wildfacts

Most wars are defined by years of strategy, trenches, and long-term conflict. The Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 said "Hold my tea." ☕

When Sultan Khalid bin Barghash refused to step down, the British gave him an ultimatum. He stayed in his palace. The British opened fire at 9:00 AM. By 9:40 AM, the war was over, the palace was a wreck, and the Sultan had basically ghosted his own army.

In the 1600s, a 46-year-old peasant woman named Faith Haworth kept experiencing uterine prolapse (yup, that's when your uterus literally starts slipping out of your body - fun times). One day, while carrying a heavy load, it happened again... and she just said “Nope. Not today.”

She straight-up grabbed her uterus, pulled it out, and cut it off with a knife. No anesthesia. No sterile tools. Just raw pain and rage and resolve. And guess what? She survived. Lived on for years. Just casually walking around with a fistula and the wildest anecdote in history.

This story was documented in 1670 by Percival Willoughby, a male midwife (???), and honestly I’m just stunned this isn’t common knowledge.

Like, imagine going through that and not even getting a Netflix limited series. Faith deserves a biopic. A shrine. A holiday.

STEVE stands for Strong Thermal Emission Velocity - it's an optical phenomenon that appears as a purple and green light ribbons. STEVE is caused by a wide ribbon of hot plasma at 450 km (280 mi) atltitude. #wildfacts

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